Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bellows rallied his demoralized troops and thoroughly redesigned the paper, adding such successful features as a front-page Q.-and-A. column and "The Ear," a racy and much-copied gossip column...
...crowd. In the school play he insists on proving that there are no small parts, only small actors, thereby disrupting the show by turning a bit role in a tragedy into a major comic turn. On a date, he insists on loudly crooning Getting to Know You into the ear of his companion-in a crowded, stuffy restaurant...
...naturalism reigned and bourgeois society was the ordure of the day. The revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Appel, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell. Of them all, only Farrell is still doing business at the same old stand. His ear for dialogue remains metallic (" 'And now, to no self-neglect,' he said, raising his glass and drinking"). His plots are, as always, mere runways for their adrenal characters. Yet, nearing 74, Farrell shows no signs of flagging energy, and he has lost none of his familiarity with...
MONTY PYTHON'S BRAND of humor always seemed peculiarly suited to the ear, not the eye. The ridiculous inflections of the members' voices, the bizarre intellectual and literary allusions, the often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound...
...writing that can survive such pas sages deserves attention. Those who keep hoping that McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...